Enrollment could be seven, ten, or thirteen pupils. The school, it was believed, recruited a handful of pupils from the local population. Some modern commentators have referred to the school as "L'École du Dragon" or "The School of the Dragon". Twenty years earlier, a description of the Scholomance and its pupils (the Scholomonariu) was given in an article written by Wilhelm Schmidt (1817–1901), a German schoolteacher at the Romanian town of Hermannstadt. Gerard also published similar material in Land Beyond the Forest (1888), which Stoker might have also read, and other commentators stated this was Stoker's direct source for Scholomance in his novel. It has been established for certain this article was an important source that Bram Stoker consulted for his novel Dracula. The dragon ( zmeu or balaur) was kept submerged in a mountaintop lake, south of Sibiu, according to some accounts.Īn early source on the Scholomance and Dracula folklore was the article "Transylvanian Superstitions" (1885), written by Scottish expatriate Emily Gerard. The school lay underground, and the students remained unexposed to sunlight for the seven-year duration of their study. One of the graduates was chosen by the Devil to be the Weathermaker and tasked with riding a dragon to control the weather. Courses taught included the speech of animals and magic spells.
The school enrolled about ten students to become the Solomonari. It was run by the Devil, according to folkloric accounts.
The Scholomance ( Romanian: Șolomanță, Solomonărie ) was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region of Transylvania.
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